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Kitāb-i Jahān-dānish [P]

Title (arabic)

كتاب جهان دانش
Title (translit)

Kitāb-i Jahān-dānish [P]
Alias

Jahān-i dāniš
جهان دانش
جهان دانش في ترجمة الکفاية في الهيئة
Jahān-i dānish fī tarjamat al-kifāyah fī al-hayʾah
Author

Sharaf al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Masʿūd ibn Muḥammad al-Masʿūdī al-Marwazī
Language

Persian-Farsi
Subject

Astronomy: Theoretical/hayʾaẗ al-ʿālam
Text type

Translation
Translation of

al-Kifāyah fī ʿilm al-hayʾah [A]
Notes

This is the author's Persian translation of his work, “Kifāya fī al-hayʾa.” It is sometimes confused with a work attributed to Ẓahīr al-Dīn Muḥammad al-Masʿūdī al-Zakī al-Ghaznawī (12th c. India).
ismi_id

59458

Manuscript Witnesses

23 witnesses:
Kitāb-i Jahān-dānish [P]_Berlin_Staatsbibliothek (Berlin)_Ms. or. oct._64
Kitāb-i Jahān-dānish [P]_Istanbul_Beyazıt Devlet Kütüphanesi_UNKNOWN (Beyazit)_4639
Kitāb-i Jahān-dānish [P]_Istanbul_Nuruosmaniye Library_NONE (Nuruosmaniye)_2905
Kitāb-i Jahān-dānish [P]_Istanbul_Süleymaniye Manuscript Library_Ayasofya_2601
Kitāb-i Jahān-dānish [P]_Istanbul_Süleymaniye Manuscript Library_Ayasofya_2602
Kitāb-i Jahān-dānish [P]_Istanbul_Süleymaniye Manuscript Library_Ayasofya_2603
Kitāb-i Jahān-dānish [P]_Istanbul_Süleymaniye Manuscript Library_M. Hafid Ef. Ilavesi_154
Kitāb-i Jahān-dānish [P]_Leiden_Leiden University_Oriental_1066
Kitāb-i Jahān-dānish [P]_Manchester_Rylands Library (Manchester)_Persian_708
Kitāb-i Jahān-dānish [P]_Najaf_unknown repository is in Najaf_Tarihi_299
Kitāb-i Jahān-dānish [P]_Oxford_Bodleian Library, Oxford Univ._Greaves_11
Kitāb-i Jahān-dānish [P]_Paris_Bibliothèque nationale (Paris)_Manuscrits-Orient Supplement persan_1306
Kitāb-i Jahān-dānish [P]_Paris_Bibliothèque nationale (Paris)_Manuscrits-Orient Supplement persan_363
Kitāb-i Jahān-dānish [P]_Paris_Bibliothèque nationale (Paris)_Manuscrits-Orient Supplement persan_776
Kitāb-i Jahān-dānish [P]_Rampur_Rampur Raza Library_UNKNOWN (Rampur Rada Library)_1172
Kitāb-i Jahān-dānish [P]_Tabrīz_National Library (Tabriz)_unknown collection is part of Tabriz National Library_599
Kitāb-i Jahān-dānish [P]_Tehran_Majlis shūrā_NONE (Majlis shūrā, Tehran)_2143
Kitāb-i Jahān-dānish [P]_Tehran_Majlis shūrā_NONE (Majlis shūrā, Tehran)_4066
Kitāb-i Jahān-dānish [P]_Tehran_Maʿarif (Library of the Ministry of Education)_UNKNOWN (Tehran Lib. Ministry of Education)_120
Kitāb-i Jahān-dānish [P]_Tehran_Maʿarif (Library of the Ministry of Education)_UNKNOWN (Tehran Lib. Ministry of Education)_251
Kitāb-i Jahān-dānish [P]_Tehran_Tehran University_Central Library and Documentation Ctr_4596
Kitāb-i Jahān-dānish [P]_Vatican City_Vatican Apostolic Library_Vat.ar._1398
Kitāb-i Jahān-dānish [P]_Vatican City_Vatican Apostolic Library_Vat.ar._1398

Literature References

Rozenfeld, Boris, and Ekmeleddin İhsanoğlu. 2003. Mathematicians, Astronomers and Other Scholars of Islamic Civilisation and Their Works (7th-19th c.). Istanbul: Research Centre for Islamic History, Art, and Culture.

P. 233 (no. 666), A1. Cf. p. 178 (no. 459), A2.